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Music from the Shadows - Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3
Haenssler Classic

Music from the Shadows - Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3

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Details

Composer
Emilie Mayer
Artist
Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven
Format
CD
Label
Haenssler Classic
Released
Jul 01, 2022
Catalog #
HC22016
UPC
881488220162

About

The long overdue rediscovery of Emilie Mayer naturally earns her the near-universal label of “female Beethoven”, which she was called even by her contemporaries. On the one hand that is a great honor, for Mayer is indeed considered the most successful symphonist among the composing women of the Romantic era. She was thus not content with the “domestic” genres of Lieder, piano works and chamber music, which is all that her female colleagues were generally allowed,Conductor:on the contrary, she designed symphonies on the grand scale. On the other hand, that label shows that people are still thinking along gender-specific lines – even if they have happily escaped the 19th-century mindset that hampered Emilie Mayer’s own career. As late as 1878, the “Neue Berliner Musikzeitung” was describing her as a “rare phenomenon” and an “exception” to the rule that the “Production” of orchestral works was solely the “Domain of the creative male intellect”. By that date, Emilie Mayer had already presented eight symphonies. And in 1850, almost 30 years earlier, a critic had exclaimed in the same paper: “Hitherto woman’s fair hand has mastered the Lied at most (...). What female powers, powers of the second rank, can attain – that is what Emilie Mayer has achieved and reproduced.”

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adagio - Allegro con spirito 14:24
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro con spirito
    Duration
    14:24
    Composer
    Emilie Mayer
    Ensemble
    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Marc Niemann
  2. 2 II. Marcia Funebre: Andante maestoso 10:05
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Marcia Funebre: Andante maestoso
    Duration
    10:05
    Composer
    Emilie Mayer
    Ensemble
    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Marc Niemann
  3. 3 III. Scherzo 07:16
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzo
    Duration
    07:16
    Composer
    Emilie Mayer
    Ensemble
    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Marc Niemann
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Allegro 06:38
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    06:38
    Composer
    Emilie Mayer
    Ensemble
    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Marc Niemann
  5. 5 I. Adagio - Allegro con brio 10:17
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro con brio
    Duration
    10:17
    Composer
    Emilie Mayer
    Ensemble
    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Marc Niemann
  6. 6 II. Un poco Adagio 06:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Un poco Adagio
    Duration
    06:52
    Composer
    Emilie Mayer
    Ensemble
    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Marc Niemann
  7. 7 III. Scherzo: Allegro 05:50
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Allegro
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Emilie Mayer
    Ensemble
    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Marc Niemann
  8. 8 IV. Finale Militaire: Adagio - Allegro vivace 08:04
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Finale Militaire: Adagio - Allegro vivace
    Duration
    08:04
    Composer
    Emilie Mayer
    Ensemble
    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Marc Niemann